My new dog
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That's bad for their joints .. Corgis tend to gain weight easily.
Aneeda72
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Well, Bella has become an aggressive demon when food is served. It was lunch time and OMGosh you would think she has never been fed ever. Food got put on a shelf while she ran around like a dog with rabies. 
So, put “bite“ glove on, caught her, took her collar off; it had become too small. This took 45 minutes of wrestling with her to get it off and put it back on. She kept biting, I didn’t care, glove worked. Then put leash on and held her at arm length, sit command, and with the other hand placed food on the floor.
Found a puppy size slow feeder which I put her food in. She lunged for it, no go, held leash tight. I disappeared as her was focus only on her food. Reminded me of dinner time with my husband.
Sit Bella. Nope. Sit Bella. After a few tries she finally sat, ok, only suppose to say sit once, but I was invisible. She could only see her food. She finally sat, 2 seconds, but enough time to say ok, them flash to the food cause she hasn’t, apparently, eaten in years. The slow feeder worked. The bite glove worked. She got lunch.
. I may need Valium.
She is beyond mad, like she is enraged. Really, really angry with me. I heard corgis hold grudges,
. Oh, well. Bella is in her crate sleeping like a, well, very tired puppy. Because trying to kill mom and dad is very tiring.
Dad gave up helping and retreated to his bedroom, chicken. Got Bella signed up for a puppy board and train starting April 6. She will be gone two weeks. I will finally get some sleep. They focus on getting puppies, and dogs, to CALM THE HELL DOWN.
This board and train is done in the trainers homes (not related to COVID) and they each train 2-5 dogs at a time. I think Bella will be a little over 5 months.
So, put “bite“ glove on, caught her, took her collar off; it had become too small. This took 45 minutes of wrestling with her to get it off and put it back on. She kept biting, I didn’t care, glove worked. Then put leash on and held her at arm length, sit command, and with the other hand placed food on the floor.
Found a puppy size slow feeder which I put her food in. She lunged for it, no go, held leash tight. I disappeared as her was focus only on her food. Reminded me of dinner time with my husband.
Sit Bella. Nope. Sit Bella. After a few tries she finally sat, ok, only suppose to say sit once, but I was invisible. She could only see her food. She finally sat, 2 seconds, but enough time to say ok, them flash to the food cause she hasn’t, apparently, eaten in years. The slow feeder worked. The bite glove worked. She got lunch.
. I may need Valium.She is beyond mad, like she is enraged. Really, really angry with me. I heard corgis hold grudges,
. Oh, well. Bella is in her crate sleeping like a, well, very tired puppy. Because trying to kill mom and dad is very tiring.Dad gave up helping and retreated to his bedroom, chicken. Got Bella signed up for a puppy board and train starting April 6. She will be gone two weeks. I will finally get some sleep. They focus on getting puppies, and dogs, to CALM THE HELL DOWN.
This board and train is done in the trainers homes (not related to COVID) and they each train 2-5 dogs at a time. I think Bella will be a little over 5 months.
Aneeda72
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Mr I know how to teach fetch, does not. Plus he is in big trouble with me. Yesterday he went to play fetch with Bella. When he picked up the balls, she tried to bite him, as she always does, and he tried to smack her across the muzzle, several times. 
I was so mad.
He never actually touched her cause he’s an old fat guy vs a corgi puppy, but Bella thought it was a great game, thus the added aggression. This is why we don’t own guns, he would be missing a hand, thus my added aggression. I am trying so hard to get her to stop biting and he plays, what she sees as a biting game.
Today it has snowed most of the day. Early on Bella got to play outdoors, and then we took a trip to a different Petsmart where she went nose to nose with a beautiful harlequin Great Dane puppy (I so want one but it will never happen) and a fake service dog pit bull. Ugh, for the pit bull, overweight fat dog, with no manners. This is where I bought a small slow feeder for her.
So, I told husband he was now going to take Bella out to potty on the snow. Then I would teach him how to play fetch with Bella and he would listen and follow instructions. Told Bella the same thing. This is how we did indoor fetch. Continued.
I was so mad.
He never actually touched her cause he’s an old fat guy vs a corgi puppy, but Bella thought it was a great game, thus the added aggression
. This is why we don’t own guns, he would be missing a hand, thus my added aggression. I am trying so hard to get her to stop biting and he plays, what she sees as a biting game.Today it has snowed most of the day. Early on Bella got to play outdoors, and then we took a trip to a different Petsmart where she went nose to nose with a beautiful harlequin Great Dane puppy (I so want one but it will never happen) and a fake service dog pit bull. Ugh, for the pit bull, overweight fat dog, with no manners. This is where I bought a small slow feeder for her.
So, I told husband he was now going to take Bella out to potty on the snow. Then I would teach him how to play fetch with Bella and he would listen and follow instructions. Told Bella the same thing. This is how we did indoor fetch. Continued.
Aneeda72
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I always teach fetch to dogs indoors first.
First Bella plays run around the living room with her stuff toys, does a few zoomies as well. Gets a little tiny bit tired. We have 13 small fits in Bella’s mouth balls. Husband sits in chair, Bella sits in front of him looking for treats. Husband shows Bella the ball, throws it.
Bella chases, picks it up, drops it right away, and comes back for treat. Nope. 3 more times, nope. 4th time, Bella brings ball 3/4 way back and drops ball, I tell husband to click, he does, Bella comes for the treat. Jumps on husband. I say ignore her.
Bella eventually sits, gets treat. Bella NEVER gets a treat unless she is sitting. The next ten balls are returned and Bella gets better and better at dropping them at his feet. Couple times he missed a great opportunity as she held them in her mouth while sitting in front of him.
. But he didn’t act fast enough to take it from her mouth.
Which is ok, cause now we are just training fetch. Sit, then throw ball, bring ball back, drop, sit, treat. Complicated for 11 week old Bella, and 74 year old husband apparently, but they both had improved by the last ball.
Bella, worn out and happy, went to take a nap. Husband went to work on his puzzle. I am in my recliner, back went out, leg and foot numb, awful pain in back a d hip, took pain pill, and made an appointment to see pain guy in a couple weeks. I am going to try and get the vaccine, long story, so no shot allowed before, and no shot for two weeks after. I just have to stay in pain.
Yes, I am whining on my puppy thread; and complaining about my husband.
Couple of times Bella dropped the ball, it rolled away, and she grabbed it, brought it back, and dropped it at his feet.
. We will do this at least once a day. Her level of excitement is high and my skin is fragile so I’ll give it a week or so till I play it with her. Besides back is killing me, and I like to keep my skin intact. I am fine with her biting husband. 
First Bella plays run around the living room with her stuff toys, does a few zoomies as well. Gets a little tiny bit tired. We have 13 small fits in Bella’s mouth balls. Husband sits in chair, Bella sits in front of him looking for treats. Husband shows Bella the ball, throws it.
Bella chases, picks it up, drops it right away, and comes back for treat. Nope. 3 more times, nope. 4th time, Bella brings ball 3/4 way back and drops ball, I tell husband to click, he does, Bella comes for the treat. Jumps on husband. I say ignore her.
Bella eventually sits, gets treat. Bella NEVER gets a treat unless she is sitting. The next ten balls are returned and Bella gets better and better at dropping them at his feet. Couple times he missed a great opportunity as she held them in her mouth while sitting in front of him.
. But he didn’t act fast enough to take it from her mouth.Which is ok, cause now we are just training fetch. Sit, then throw ball, bring ball back, drop, sit, treat. Complicated for 11 week old Bella, and 74 year old husband apparently
, but they both had improved by the last ball.Bella, worn out and happy, went to take a nap. Husband went to work on his puzzle. I am in my recliner, back went out, leg and foot numb, awful pain in back a d hip, took pain pill, and made an appointment to see pain guy in a couple weeks. I am going to try and get the vaccine, long story, so no shot allowed before, and no shot for two weeks after. I just have to stay in pain.
Yes, I am whining on my puppy thread; and complaining about my husband.
Couple of times Bella dropped the ball, it rolled away, and she grabbed it, brought it back, and dropped it at his feet.
. We will do this at least once a day. Her level of excitement is high and my skin is fragile so I’ll give it a week or so till I play it with her. Besides back is killing me, and I like to keep my skin intact. I am fine with her biting husband. 
MickaC
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You are 300% right.....corgis are a breed all their own.....Micki reminds me of that all the time.What you are going through with Bella, all sounds very familiar. Our daughter's Corgi, when a puppy, was always trying to herd my hubby during walks..she would nip the backs of his legs and heels. It eventually stopped. Hard when it's in-bred.
Daughter hired a dog psychologist to visit - for help with how to handle incessant barking. They are a breed all their own
Not criticizing.......should train for good behaviour, and obedience.......not changing who they are.
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MickaC
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I call that cruelty.......owner needs a whole bunch of common sense.
izzy
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A mans or womans best friend without a shadow of a doubt.
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Aneeda72
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Due to hurting my back, Bella and I took a break from training except for the food aggression stuff which is just sitting by her and talking to her as she eats. Strange how last week I could pet her while she ate and this week, I can not touch her unless I want to lose a hand.
Played fetch with her three times. She fetched really good in the house, but not so much outside. She really is an indoor dog. If my back will tolerate it, we are taking her to Home Depot and Lowe’s tomorrow.
She is biting hands less, and feet, legs more. Go figure
Played fetch with her three times. She fetched really good in the house, but not so much outside. She really is an indoor dog. If my back will tolerate it, we are taking her to Home Depot and Lowe’s tomorrow.
She is biting hands less, and feet, legs more. Go figure
Aneeda72
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When I say “Bella” she comes running, but I notice outside she is slower. . Time for formal Bella here! Training. Started it today. Let her get interested in something, walk away from her, then Bella here. Show treat. She comes running. 
. Click, treat. She runs and sits right in front of me To collect her treat.
Because from the beginning, if Bella wants a treat she must sit right in front of me. The biting of the hands is now half hearted mouthing of the hands.. Thought that would never happen. Still biting at feet and legs, plus grabs pant legs to play tug of war.
While she does not always listen, sit is solid, as is our version of no. Drop it is coming along, leave it, so-so, take it-not sure she understands this one yet. Have not walked her on the leash in a week because of my back and broken glass on sidewalk. After her shot next Saturday we can go to the park.
I can not get over how smart she is and how fast she caught on to fetch. It’s taken us months to teach fetch to two other dogs (the others were no good) and they never reached the level she is at. We sent one dog to a retriever trainer for forced fetch, and it was a no go.
It is so hard to get a reliable fetch, the dog needs to love to do it. This is why I chose the heeler/corgi mix and so happy it is working. Now it just needs to generalize which it will. Retrieve training doesn’t start till 6 months.
She still is no shedding so she will be low she’s and blow her coat out twice a year. if we can just get through the food aggression issues,
. She will be great. She eats like a pig, but burns it off.
. Time for formal Bella here! Training. Started it today. Let her get interested in something, walk away from her, then Bella here. Show treat. She comes running. . Click, treat. She runs and sits right in front of me To collect her treat.Because from the beginning, if Bella wants a treat she must sit right in front of me. The biting of the hands is now half hearted mouthing of the hands.
. Thought that would never happen. Still biting at feet and legs, plus grabs pant legs to play tug of war. While she does not always listen, sit is solid, as is our version of no. Drop it is coming along, leave it, so-so, take it-not sure she understands this one yet. Have not walked her on the leash in a week because of my back and broken glass on sidewalk. After her shot next Saturday we can go to the park.
I can not get over how smart she is and how fast she caught on to fetch. It’s taken us months to teach fetch to two other dogs (the others were no good) and they never reached the level she is at. We sent one dog to a retriever trainer for forced fetch, and it was a no go.
It is so hard to get a reliable fetch, the dog needs to love to do it. This is why I chose the heeler/corgi mix and so happy it is working. Now it just needs to generalize which it will. Retrieve training doesn’t start till 6 months.
She still is no shedding so she will be low she’s and blow her coat out twice a year. if we can just get through the food aggression issues,
. She will be great. She eats like a pig, but burns it off.
Unfortunately my Bulldog is almost that fat, but I got her that way at the shelter a couple of months ago. She is on a strict diet with food from the vet so hopefully she will lose some weight.
Aneeda72
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I am fat, husband is really fat, but we’ve never had a fat dog.
Aneeda72
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We are making progress with Bella’s food aggression which has moved from moderate to mild. I can now touch and pet her back a couple times as she eats and she will lay on my foot sometimes as well. But I would not reach down and touch her bowl .
I think because I went to take that small piece of turkey tendon from her it sparked the problem. I will give those to a friend for their dog. It was supposed to be long lasting and wasn’t and the small piece that’s left could get stuck in her throat. My friends lab will have no issue with them. I will stick to bully sticks for her, she does not object to me touching them.
Bella over fetched today. Grabbing my slipper socks she ran to the end of the living area, ran back, he clicked, she dropped it, he grabbed it; then she grabbed the other one.. Once he rescued it, she grabbed my tennis shoe. She loves to fetch and get treats .
.I think because I went to take that small piece of turkey tendon from her it sparked the problem. I will give those to a friend for their dog. It was supposed to be long lasting and wasn’t and the small piece that’s left could get stuck in her throat. My friends lab will have no issue with them. I will stick to bully sticks for her, she does not object to me touching them.
Bella over fetched today. Grabbing my slipper socks she ran to the end of the living area, ran back, he clicked, she dropped it, he grabbed it; then she grabbed the other one.
. Once he rescued it, she grabbed my tennis shoe. She loves to fetch and get treats .
Aneeda72
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Got Bella out of her crate and leashed up without being mouthed and thought, wow, this is great. Later, I reached down, picked up my slipper, and she calmly reached over and bit me and drew blood. It also hurts. Hmm.
She clearly does not get to mouth softly and this is a deeper bite. Still a long way to go with this. Course part of the issue is my skin is so thin her teeth go through it easily. My skin is actually torn. I’ll have to keep an eye on it. Washed it off, put medicine on it, pretty sure she does not have rabies.
She clearly does not get to mouth softly and this is a deeper bite. Still a long way to go with this. Course part of the issue is my skin is so thin her teeth go through it easily. My skin is actually torn. I’ll have to keep an eye on it. Washed it off, put medicine on it, pretty sure she does not have rabies.
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Aneeda72
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Bella is outside to play in the puppy pen, but a lot of times she just sits under a chair I have in the pen, ears forward and alert, and observes her world of the back yard until I come out and let her run around, nose to the ground, a fallen branch in her mouth.
She cannot be left alone in the back yard, of course, too many puppy dangerous stuff. Yesterday, she started chewing on the raspberry canes which have spines (thorns) on them. I can just see a trip to the vet to remove raspberry spines from her tongue. So, hmm.
I decided to move the plants which means another year of no raspberries, but this will be a continuing issue if I leave them there. Woke my husband up who has done nothing all winter and told him to move the plants. He was so pleased to dig in nearly frozen ground.
He dug them up-where do you want them? Hmm, up your, oh, hmm, where do you want to put them? (He always complains I never let him do what he wants). Then he asked here or there? Wherever, you want. Cause if he puts them where I don’t like, I’ll just have him move them again.
Anyway, now Bella can safely play in that area after I rake it today. We were going to change the fencing there anyway and it will be easier with the plants gone and put into the garden space that we finished up in the fall. Bella will not have access to that space. Although, due to the drought I might not be able to have a garden. They get very strict with water when we have a drought.
She cannot be left alone in the back yard, of course, too many puppy dangerous stuff. Yesterday, she started chewing on the raspberry canes which have spines (thorns) on them.
I can just see a trip to the vet to remove raspberry spines from her tongue. So, hmm.I decided to move the plants which means another year of no raspberries, but this will be a continuing issue if I leave them there. Woke my husband up who has done nothing all winter and told him to move the plants. He was so pleased to dig in nearly frozen ground
.He dug them up-where do you want them? Hmm, up your, oh, hmm, where do you want to put them? (He always complains I never let him do what he wants
). Then he asked here or there? Wherever, you want. Cause if he puts them where I don’t like, I’ll just have him move them again. Anyway, now Bella can safely play in that area after I rake it today. We were going to change the fencing there anyway and it will be easier with the plants gone and put into the garden space that we finished up in the fall. Bella will not have access to that space. Although, due to the drought I might not be able to have a garden. They get very strict with water when we have a drought.
Lee
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Aneeda, please do not take chances with the bite. See a doctor if it appears that it is out of the ordinary.
And tell Bella the next time she bites you that you will bite her back
And tell Bella the next time she bites you that you will bite her back
Sliverfox
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Aneeda,, have you had a tetanus shot recently?
With Bella biting ,, might be good idea for you & husband to get them.
With Bella biting ,, might be good idea for you & husband to get them.
Aneeda72
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Yup I sent a message to my doc to check on that but I think we are up to date. Thanks
Aneeda72
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Tetanus sooo my shot it ok, but she wants to see the wound
, really not that big a deal but going to attempt a video conference. She will probably put me on an antibiotic. I’ve had worst skin tears and she never put me on an antibiotic for any of them.
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Aneeda72
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As usual I could not get video chat to work, so cancelled the appointment, if it looks infected I will go to instant care. It frustrates the heck out of me when people tell me it is just so simple and and all I have to do is open it.
Then there are a million forums to fill out, and they have my insurance wrong, and I can’t correct anything
and then I get upset and feel stupid and I am done with the whole process. Then I call and am told just try this. Sure, NO!
Then there are a million forums to fill out, and they have my insurance wrong, and I can’t correct anything
and then I get upset and feel stupid and I am done with the whole process. Then I call and am told just try this. Sure, NO!Sliverfox
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You have onion skin Aneeda?
Just watch it ,, am sure you know how to treat wounds.
Just watch it ,, am sure you know how to treat wounds.
Aneeda72
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Yes I do, except it does not smell
Sliverfox
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^ Smarty!^